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[moghopper]

I've been trying to figure something out for a while now.

Why is it that I feel pain when I'm dreaming? It's something that has puzzled me for a long time.

A good example would be when I dreamed that my legs were severed off at the shin by a giant fan. I felt a dull throbbing pain in my legs during the dream. I've even heard of people actually experience the full pain that would occur in real life should something similar happen in their dreams, instead of the dulled down kind that I feel.

Does anyone else have this problem? And what causes it?

[Realmfighter]

Ask a doctor/physiologist.

Any answer you get from us will be guesses at best.

[Tack]

And then tell us the answer. this sounds incredibly intriguing.

[moghopper]

And then tell us the answer. this sounds incredibly intriguing.

Maybe for you. I can tell you its none to pleasant to experience

[Creamcorn]

I've had that same experience before (well not the dream slicing) but where I wake up from a dream in pain.

Although I don't always feel the pain in the dream affected body part. It actually goes all towards my heart, there are times where it feels like something just squished my heart. I usually wake in much pain from this, dying pain mind you, not sure if it's dangerous because it doesn't happen all the time; it's a once a month occasion thing.

[moghopper]

Thats a bit different from mine. It's location specific. And is present in 100% of my dreams

[sonerohi]

Creamcorn, I think you are having recurring heart-attacks. But, on topic. My muscles cramp up regularly while I'm sleeping in the worst way, and when they do something happens in my dream that would cause that pain. It's kind of cool.

[Itnetlolor]

I have these experiences often. I attempt to induce lucid dreaming to have control over my personal universe to test it further, and have fun with it.

If I recall from a bit of a psychology course I took, I believe the term for it is "Kinaesthetic Dreaming". Basically, you feel what you see/believe. In dreams, all your senses (including the "sixth" sense) are applied, and essentially feels like you've traveled into an alternate reality.

I prefer to call dreams at this level a pocket-universe. If you can really apply it, you can probably come up with ideas and experiences such that you normally couldn't do in this reality. I also nickname it "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" or "Ozzyness"; to sleep is to enter a rabbit hole, and to dream is to explore it (Wonderland); or alternatively, to sleep is to be picked up by the twister, and to dream is to explore Oz (or travel the yellow brick road).

I guess when you have this, plus lucid dreaming, it's like Heaven, but it's not. Reason: You can wake up from it.

[Zai]

I've had that same experience before (well not the dream slicing) but where I wake up from a dream in pain.

Although I don't always feel the pain in the dream affected body part. It actually goes all towards my heart, there are times where it feels like something just squished my heart. I usually wake in much pain from this, dying pain mind you, not sure if it's dangerous because it doesn't happen all the time; it's a once a month occasion thing.

Please tell me you've been to a doctor about this.

[ChairmanPoo]

Creamcorn's could be reflux.

[Creamcorn]

Well, it's not that bad, it goes away in about ten or so seconds. Plus this topics not about me.

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[ToonyMan]

Sometimes I have dreams where I can't breath, and I mean I can't breath.  Hasn't happened in awhile thankfully.  Not like I fall asleep with my face against the pillow or anything, heh.

[kuro_suna]

Sometimes I have dreams where I can't breath, and I mean I can't breath.  Hasn't happened in awhile thankfully.  Not like I fall asleep with my face against the pillow or anything, heh.

If your having actual breathing problems its a serious medical issue but usually this is a harmless side effect of Sleep paralysis.

Basically when you start dreaming your brain release a chemical that blocks the nerve signals to most of your body effectively paralysing you.  If this chemical switch fail to flip you will start sleep walking and if it takes to long to reset you have sleep paralysis. When your brain stops dreaming but your brain hasn't completely returned control of you body to the conscious mind it can feel like your suffocating even though subconscious parts of the brain will manage breathing in its absence.

[ToonyMan]

I don't have any major breathing problems so it's paralysis.